Thinking aloud on a work in progress:

John Dewey needs to be rescued from both his fans and his foes.

If one thinks of philosophy as not separated by unbridgeable gaps from either the natural sciences nor the study of society and its needs, then one is an heir to Dewey.

Paradoxically, his writings constitute not just a source but an obstacle for the best understanding of his thought.

He wrote too much; his collected works fill 76 volumes. Navigating such a plenitude of writings is a challenge in itself. Worse, navigating his notoriously turgid prose makes reading Dewey less like a voyage of discovery than a punishment march. The contrast with the stylish wit of fellow pragmatist William James or the rigorous elegance of his contemporary Bertrand Russell is painful.

Still, engage with Dewey one must if one is to understand both the problems, possibilities, and legacy of US progressive thought in the first half of the 20th century.

More to follow on this topic over the coming months.

Image: John Dewey -- Деветьяров Руслан -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ -- Wikimedia Commons

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“Her insanın kendi felsefesi vardır; mesele, onun hayatı daha yaşanır kılıp kılmadığıdır.”

— John Dewey

💬 Bir fikrin değeri, hayata değdiği yerde belli olur.

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“Yet the life which men, women and children actually lead, the opportunities open to them, the values they are capable of enjoying, their education, their share in all the things of art and science, are mainly determined by economic conditions. Hence we can hardly expect a moral system which ignores economic conditions to be other than remote and empty.”

John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, p225

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»Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity, any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others. A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof«

John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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"Top of the Heap: Helen Verran"
https://somatosphere.com/2016/top-of-the-heap-helen-verran.html/

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Yuriko Saito on päivittänyt SEP-entryään arjen estetiikasta, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-of-everyday/.

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"Boys and girls alike do cooking and carpentry work, for the object of the work is not to train them for any trade or profession, but to train them to be capable, happy members of society." - John Dewey on *Fairhope school* in *Schools of tomorrow*

This is in direct contrast to what many of our generation were subjected to!

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